Jailbird -Alex-

You locked yourself inside a hole And you threw away the Key You got so lost in the bottle that you Forgot just how to breathe You're waiting for some saving grace So you can fight off all your Demons But someday you'll have to save yourself Before you drink yourself to Death You're the jailbird from next door Who can't remember how To fly You're haunted by the monsters that destroyed You as a child Now your world is black with shadows It's darker than a moonless sky You howl at the stars and pray for the steady Warmth of daylight What you couldn't see was there were Angels all around you Waiting in the background till they could See you with sober Eyes They would have taken you with open Arms They would have bandaged all your wounds But to risk your unaffected pride? That's unthinkable To you The truth is, you've become a vulture You eat the heart out of The good You spit joy out like it's sour juice And exchange happiness For booze And once again, you're on the edge Ready to jump right off the Cliff Oh, jailbird, what will happen when there's no one Left to break your fall? And whatever happened to the boy I used To know? The one I believed was worth saving, whom I thought could be saved? You strayed from your cage for quite awhile It looked like you had a chance It turns out, you could barely stay afloat, so you just Chose to drown While you were knee-deep in quick sand, you Could have gotten out by Now So you're packing up your bags, and It's no doubt you'll have To go Even the luckiest black cats have had To fight for their nine lives You're down to the nubs of your nail-bitten soul And the stakes are higher than ever The next time you get up on top Of that ledge I hope it's because you've found the wings So you can fly